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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"senior executives"”.
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Anchoring Change in Higher Education : Narratives from Senior Executives at Malcolm Baldrige Award-Winning Institutions
… group of 6 participants. These individuals were senior leaders with rankings equivalent to dean or higher. Each of the participants was an active leader in their organization’s planned change to implement the Malcolm Baldrige criteria. They each played an active role in seeking to secure …
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Developmental Networks, Black Feminist Thought, and Black Women Federal Senior Executives: A Case Study Approach
… questions: (1) What do Black women federal senior executives value within their developmental networks? (2) How do Black women federal senior executives construct political identity within their developmental networks? Applying the conceptual framework of Black feminist thought and …
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Leadership competencies to address the Fourth Industrial Revolution: case studies of the preparedness of owners and senior executives of South African SMEs.
… for the 4IR among South African SME owners and senior managers. Using a targeted literature review, the study assesses the validity of the six key leadership capabilities from the Molecular Leadership Competency Model: Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ), Digital Quotient (DQ), …
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The influence of stakeholder power, proximity and urgency on the selection and prioritization of projects within IT project portfolio management
… value for the organization. In the past, senior executives focused on projects that met three criteria, namely being on-time, on budget and in scope. However, a shift has occurred as a result of the fact that senior executives are more concerned about the right mix of projects that will …
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Organizational Stress and Well-being In Public Service Executives: The Role of Stewardship
… viewed as an organizational approach that helps executives to navigate their complex demands and be more resilient to organizational stress. The predictive power of this conceptual model was evaluated through the examination of senior executives from the public service of Canada. Using a …
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Sponsorship and career progression in the consulting industry
… differences in career progression to the senior ranks of a professional services firm are often attributed to the presence or absence of sponsorship from senior executives. Senior advocates play a critical role in career advancement by identifying opportunities and by giving proteges the …
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Developing a knowledge management approach to support managing credit risk in Jordanian banks
… in banks; the sharing of knowledge amongst the senior executives has not been as effective as it should have been. The lack of knowledge amongst senior executives about the level of risks taken in sub-prime lending, the resulting "toxic assets‟ and the global nature of the instruments used to …
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Implication of Gender Stereotypes for Public Policy
… leadership effectiveness. Using a data set of senior executives in the public sector from The Leadership Circle multi-rater assessment tool, research supports the theory that gender influences how bosses rate their direct reports on leadership effectiveness. Survey data identifying leadership …
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The Coast Guard in transition : organization change in response to September 11
… concludes with a set of recommendations that senior executives in the Coast Guard might consider to ease some of the current organizational challenges the Service now faces
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End-of-life cycle product management
… is conducted through surveys and interviews of senior executives from Fortune 500 companies, focusing mainly on food, networking equipment, medical devices, consumer electronics and retail industries. Actual names of the companies are not revealed for confidentiality reasons. Also, the …
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Linking Succession Planning to Employee Training: A Study of Federal Employees
… qualifications; (c) insufficient support from senior executives; and (d) senior executives' quick fix attitude were recognized as barriers impacting succession planning. Overall, 55 percent of the survey statements produced significant differences (α = .05). The findings resulted in four …
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A Study of the Impact of the Workplace Learning Function on Organizational Excellence by Examining the Workplace Learning Practices of Six Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Recipients
… benefits strongly from the support of the senior executives and the CEO or equivalent. The findings also supported current research regarding workplace learning evaluations and delivery methods.
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The choice between public and private sector agencies for the provision of local authorities services : a methodological analysis of selected case studies of services provided by the Cape Town City Council
… through personal structured interviews with senior executives in both the public and private sectors. The methodological approach was applied to case studies of the solid waste ( collection and disposal) and construction (civil engineering and building) services of the Cape Town City Council.
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Machine learning for detection of cyberattacks on industrial control systems
Senior executives for industrial systems are increasingly facing the need to reassess their cyber risk as cyberattacks are on a steep rise. This is because of the rapid digitalization of traditional industries, designed to work for decades at a time when security was not a priority. Simultaneously, …
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Demonstrating the benefits of knowledge management assets : developing and applying a valuation methodology
… assets in order to provide reassurance to senior executives, to motivate knowledge worker utilization of the asset, and to leverage further funds for knowledge management investments. A six-step methodology is prescribed in this thesis to assist organizations seeking to identify both …
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The Johnson and Johnson journey deploying SmartOps for multi-echelon inventory optimization
… while IT investment decisions are challenging, senior executives should strongly consider investing in multi-echelon inventory optimization software. Recommendations for implementation include automation, people development, and forecast data centralization.
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The Influence of Culture on Senior Leaders as They Seek to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas at Work
… is based on thirty in depth interviews with senior executives who frequently faced ethical dilemmas at work. Interviewees represented a number of diverse cultural backgrounds (including British, Dutch, US, Indian, Saudi, Colombian and Brazilian) and a number of strong organisation cultures. …
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Optimizing inventory levels using financial, lifecycle and forecast variance data
… meetings with marketing, operations and senior executives - the outcome of which are wafer orders and assembly and test plans at the world's largest contract foundries and subcontractors. Finally, the 2006 acquisition of ATI by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) offers unforeseen flexibility, …
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Reinforcement sensitivity theory, personality, and senior executive performance
… top-level executive leaders. In this study, 189 senior executives underwent a battery of psychometric, biographical and performance measures. The dimensions of approach and avoidance motivation were measured using Carver and White's (1994) 'BIS/BAS Scales', and the predictive power of these …
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Effective business strategies for energy service companies in the East Asian business environment.
… through a questionnaire survey addressed to senior executives of oil and gas service organisations in the above three countries, and 98 organisations participated in the survey. A number of statistical procedures like descriptive statistics, univariate statistics and bivariate analysis were …
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